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Practical and precise, this hands-on guide with ready answers is designed for IT professionals working with Windows Server 2016. If you're an IT Pro responsible for configuring, managing and maintaining servers running Windows Server 2016, start with this well-organized and authoritative resource.

Inside, you'll find expert insights, tips, tricks and workarounds that will show you how to master Windows Server 2016 in the shortest amount of time possible. During the course of reading this book, you will master a number of complex topics, techniques, commands and functions.

This book, Windows Server 2016: Server Infrastructure, is designed to be used with Windows Server 2106: Essentials for Administration which collectively provide over 250,000 words and 1000 pages of expert advice. Using the books together, you can answer most of the everyday questions you'll have with Windows Server 2016.

Topics discussed in this book include:

Planning for Windows Server 2016 and developing a deployment plan
Implementing TCP/IP networking and NIC teaming
Managing file services and data storage
Partitioning and optimizing drives
Using TPM and BitLocker Drive Encryption
Using Storage Spaces and Storage Pools
Configuring file sharing and disk quotas
Configuring Shadow Copies and Work Folders
Using group policy for administration
Configuring and maintaining print services
Deploying essential infrastructure services including DHCP and DNS
And much, much more!!!

Not only will this informative training manual help you become familiar with many new ideas, it'll help you master Windows Server 2016 in the shortest amount of time possible. This is the ideal concise, immediate reference you'll want with you at all times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Deploying Windows Server 2016 1
Chapter 2. Implementing TCP/IP Networking 33
Chapter 3. Data Storage: The Essentials 59
Chapter 4. Partitioning and Optimizing Drives 93
Chapter 5. Using TPM and BitLocker Drive Encryption 116
Chapter 6. Using Storage Spaces 162
Chapter 7. Using RAID 187
Chapter 8. Maintaining Partitions and Drives 199
Chapter 9. Implementing File Sharing 217
Chapter 10. Using Shadow Copies and Work Folders 255
Chapter 11. Managing Permissions and Auditing 270
Chapter 12. Configuring Disk Quotas 290
Chapter 13. Using Group Policy for Administration 311
Chapter 14. Implementing Print Services 337
Chapter 15. Configuring and Maintaining Print Services 367
Chapter 16. Implementing DHCP 388
Chapter 17. Managing and Maintaining DHCP 411
Chapter 18. Implementing DNS 449
Chapter 19. Managing and Maintaining DNS 473
Index 507
About the Author 517